au1929 wrote:brahmin
To begin with the Ethiopian Jews are and have been accepted as Jews by the state of Israel.
As to anti Semites, that there are anti-Semites living in the US, Canada or elsewhere does not brand a nation as anti-Semitic. No more than branding it anti-Catholic, Christian, Islamic and, etc., because there are people of that stripe living therein.
i am not branding nations as anti semitic.
if i did that, its a mistake.
what i meant to say, that once even a single instance is recorded in any nation of the slightest anti semitism, then that nation can no longer claim to be totally un-anti-semitic.
as we can.
as for israel and ethopians - thats very nice. but i do know that a lot of manipuri and cochin (kerela) jews have not been accepted or at least initially weren't (now they are considered the hoiliest of holy - the ben-e-israel itself - by some scholars. others still express doubts). i have a few articles written by an american jewish scholar friend of mine - if you give me time i can did them up in my computer.
perhaps because ethiopea/abyssynia has always been historically very close to the land of canaan - if i know right king sholmo was from there or something.
so with ethiopea, and yemen, the equation changes somewhat.
also if the acceptance took place at the time of israel's inception (not saying that it was) - well that also changes the equations somewhat.
